PENALTIES PRESCRIBED.



  Sec. 12. Any officer of the election who shall knowingly
and willfully give or certify to an improper certificate of the
election as herein required, or shall mutilate or tamper with
any of the seals, or destroy or remove any of the ballots re-
quired to be preserved herein, shall be guilty of felony, and
upon conviction thereof shall be confined in the penitentiary
for a period of not less than one nor more than three years.
  Sec. 13. Any County Court Clerk who shall knowingly and
willfully unlock or break open and remove or destroy, or in
any way tamper with a ballot box and ballots left in his care
and custody, or permit any other person to do so during the
period of six months which they are so required to remain in
his office, or until they are removed from his office by order of
the court hearing any contest, shall forfeit his office and be
deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall
be confined in the penitentiary not less than one nor more
than three years.
  Sec. 14. Any person or persons who shall in any way re-
move, mutilate or destroy, or add any new ballots to, the
regular ballots that have been counted and prepared for pres-
ervation, or have already been preserved, as required herein,
so that the result of the election in such precinct or county is
changed thereby, shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of
a felony and confined in the penitentiary for not less than one
nor more than three years.
  Sec. 15. Any person or persons who shall unlawfully at-
tempt to prevent, or prevent, any voter from casting his ballot,
or shall attempt to, or intimidate, any person or voter so as
to prevent him from casting his ballot, or who shall unlaw-
fully interfere with the officers of election in the discharge
of their duties as such, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and,
upon conviction, be confined in the penitentiary for a period of
years, of not less than one nor more than five years, for each
offense. The fact that the person or persons so offending
may be an officer or officers of the Federal Government, or of
the State or anv district, county, town or city thereof, or of
election, shall not relieve them of the responsibility or penalty
for the violation of this section.



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